New York Times editors deplorably headlined “A New Level of Depravity, Even for Bashar al-Assad” – declaring him guilty of Tuesday’s CW attack, despite no evidence suggesting it.

The “attack…bore witness to a new level of atrocity…victim(ized) (by) airstrikes apparently by (Syrian) forces…a new marker for a leader with a record of brutality,” Times editors willfully lied.

“…Russia and Iran are complicit in the brutality,” they added – ignoring horrific US high crimes of war and against humanity in all its war theaters, including the ongoing rape and destruction of Mosul, massacring civilians indiscriminately.

Neocon/CIA-connected Washington Post editors: “In Trump’s world, is it okay to use chemical weapons? Now we will find out.”

“United Nations investigations have established that the Assad regime has dropped barrel bombs filled with chlorine gas on civilians on multiple occasions since agreeing in 2013 to hand over its chemical arsenal and abide by a treaty banning chemical-weapons use.”

Fact: No so-called “barrel bombs” exist. No evidence suggests CW use by Syrian forces. Plenty proves use by US-supported terrorists.

Fact: In all its wars, Pentagon forces routinely use banned chemical, biological, radiological and other illegal weapons. Media scoundrels report nothing, ignoring US high crimes instead of highlighting them.

“Graphic images of dead and dying Syrian children following Tuesday’s suspected chemical attack are forcing the Trump administration to confront the war just days after officials signaled the US would no longer demand that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad leave power.”

Fact: No evidence ever suggests his culpability for these type attacks when they occur.

Fact: Syria is a sovereign independent nation. No others may legally interfere in its affairs for any reasons – unless authorized by Security Council members to respond in self-defense if attacked.

Note: Al Jazeera is owned, operated and controlled by the despotic Qatari monarchy, allied with Washington, NATO and other Gulf states against Syria – providing weapons, munitions and possibly toxic agents to anti-Assad terrorists.